New manufacturing plant will create 1 million jobs in the region, where the average monthly wage is $100 a month

The market leading computer manufacturer Foxconn is planning a new $1 billion facility in Indonesia.

The new manufacturing plant will create around 1 million jobs in the region. Foxconn is currently discussing its plans with the Indonesian Ministry of Industry.

Foxconn already operates several manufacturing plants in China and Brazil, where it assembles electronic goods for many of the world's biggest technology companies.

In a statement released yesterday, the company says it was attracted to Indonesia over Malaysia and Vietnam due to its high rate of economic growth - around 6 per cent a year. It also noted that the region is "sorely in need" of formal jobs, giving it a large workforce used to wages of around $100 a month.

"We are looking forward to establish a new manufacturing plant in Indonesia, although nothing is finalised yet," a Foxconn representative in a statement. "This will help us in manufacturing good quality products and make them available in the markets at lower prices. With this, Indonesians will also get better employment opportunities. We will continue our efforts in establishing more manufacturing plants across the globe."

"Those Chinese workers are beginning to ask for more and more, so we're looking at where to move our sweatshop to next. Ideally somewhere where people earn next to nothing and where labour laws are in their infancy.

Everywhere that sweat shop manufacturing moves to it raises living standards.
Obviously, because it is labour intensive, this manufacturing will continually move to wherever labour is cheapest. So they have the effect of helping those on earth who have the most need.
The eventual result of this will be that the whole population of the planet will become middle class.

Lower tariff barriers will speed up this distribution of wealth. This is where the EU and then USA are totally immoral putting up trade barriers against poorer countries. Agricultural subsidies being one of the most pernicious barriers that prevent the advancement of low income economies.